Senators coach Guy Boucher started his daily meeting with the media Thursday morning by congratulating Chicago Cubs manager Joe Maddon.
While coach of the Tampa Bay Lightning from 2010-2013, Boucher got to know Maddon a bit while he was the manager of the Tampa Bay Rays.
Boucher threw out the first pitch at a Rays game and it was Maddon who pushed him to do it with a hockey stick rather than throw from the mound.
Boucher said he did a lot of practice trying to throw the ball from the mound but wasn’t having a lot of success before Maddon suggested he had some hockey sticks he could use instead.